Dates Added

I just added dates to the patterns under "Links to my patterns" so you will know where to find the tutorials that go with them. Please find the tutorials under the year, month and day listed next to the pattern listed. Thanks and enjoy! If you have any questions please feel free to write me at the address in my profile.

Remember these are my own patterns that I drew the patterns for and wrote the tutorials for. I offer these patterns for free for you to make for yourself, as gifts, or even to sell BUT please do NOT claim my patterns as your own or put them on your website. You may put a link to my site on your website. Please be respectful. You would want the same respect for your patterns. Thank you. God bless.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Again I have neglected this blog of mine and need to get a BUNCH of things posted! I have made a file folder on my desk top with lots of things to put up. So I will start with this basket that can be made for not only Mother's Day, but really, for any occasion, such as Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, 'just because', etc.

Well, let's get started!

First of all what you will need:
1 fat quarters of fabric
1/3 yard of another fabric (which will include fabric for binding)
batting, can be scraps
thread
scissors
pattern (can be found on the right side of this page under 'Links to my patterns') you will need to make two copies for a couple of pieces overlap

sewing machine

All seams are sewn with 1/4 inch seam allowance.

Now:

You will need to cut out the following pattern pieces of each fat quarter and batting:

1 handle
4 diamonds
4 triangles
1 square

Now put together the outside fabric with the batting like this:

Sew triangles to the diamonds, keeping the long part of the triangles to the bottom:

To sew the next diamond to the triangle you will need to set it up like this (above) and sew along the edge.

It will look like this

When all are sewed together it will look like this.

Fold the length in half and sew the last triangle to the first diamond.

It will look like a crown.

By the way, this is the way to make crowns, too, if you are needing them for church plays or another play. You will need to adjust the size for the wearer by making the pieces larger or adding more diamonds and triangles.

Now, you will add the bottom square. Match up the points of the square to the seams where the triangles are sewn to the diamonds. Keep the straight of the square to the straight of the triangles.

Sew from point to point turning your work with the needle down at the next point.

Now you should have something like this:

Do the above directions for the lining:

Now you have two pieces, the outside of the basket and the lining ready to be put together.

Put the lining inside the shell.

Match up the points and valleys (inverted points).

Now for covering the edges:

Cut fabric strips for binding

Fold in half with wrong sides together.

Place along outside edge of the basket, leaving about 2 inches of binding free. In other words you will starting sewing the binding 2 inches from the top edge of the binding. This is so after you have sewn all the way around and come back near to the starting point you can put the two edges together. We will talk about that a little later. Also start sewing in between the low and point areas of one of the diamond edge.

Sew to the point. Stop at the point with the needle down.

With needle in the down position pivot your work to follow the next edge.

Sew to the inverted ("valley") and put needle down again and pivot to go "up" the next diamond.

Sew all the binding all the way around the top of the basket back toward the beginning and stop about 3 inches from the beginning point. From here pin the binding next to the starting point. Open the binding and pin both edges together with right sides facing each other.

Pin where the two actually meet

Sew together in a straight line.

Trim off excess.

Again, fold in half with wrong sides together and sew in place to the basket.

Now the first step of adding binding is done.

Fold binding over the edge and hand stitch down.

As you do make sure to shape points at the top of each diamond.

Now for the handles:

Measure from one inverted point (valley) to the one on the opposite side, adding inches to make the length you desire. Cut fabric this length by three inches wide.

Cut batting the same length by 3/4 inches wide.

Place batting in the center of the fabric like this:

Fold one side to the center.

And then the other side, but folding raw edge under.

Pin in place

Sew with decorative stitch on each side or just with a straight stitch down along the edge.

Place right side of the handle to the inside of the basket just below the edge at the binding seam. Stitch across.

I am sorry this is blurry. Fold up and stitch again, back and forth to secure.

Repeat both these steps on the opposite of the basket.

Finished!!

Your basket is now finished! Fill with goodies and give to Mom with love!

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! Make some for any holiday with any fabric.

By the way! I nearly forgot to mention that if you would like to bind your basket like I did in the very first picture with the blue binding. You will finish this way (I am sorry I do not have pictures, so I hope you can understand the following.): Layer each piece for the diamonds, triangle, squares together; wrong sides of fabric together with the batting in the middle. Follow the part of the tutorial that sews the triangles and diamonds together but sew all layers to the outside. Do the same for the bottom square. Make binding––you will have to make it very long--cut several pieces and sew them end to end. Fold in half length-wise, wrong side together. Sew the sides first starting at the top to the bottom of each angle. Fold binding over the edge and hand stitch down. Now do the square bottom and then the top edge. Again fold the binding over the edge and hand stitch down.

If you have any questions please ask. Write me to the email address in the "About me" section. Thank you for reading. I hope you make this basket and have fun with it.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

I am going to be blunt here. Please read what I have to say to you. Please! YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.Dear Friends, especially those that do not know Jesus. I know people have been saying for a great many years that Jesus is coming soon. And He is. The time is closer now than ever before. I would like for you to read and consider what I am going to share with you. Psalm 19 verses 1-4 says this out of the Living Translation:

"The heavens proclaim the glory of God.The skies display His craftsmanship.Day after day they continue to speak;night after night they make Him known.They speak without a sound or word;their voice is never heard.Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,and their words to all the world."

This is, in a way, is repeated in Romans 1:20

"For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature. So they have NO excuse for not knowing God."

My pastor shared a lot of this Wednesday night and when he had someone read this last verse a woman said, " You know the storm that just hit the south, the people were warned 8 days in advance. And when it actually hit people said ,'why weren't we warned? why weren't we told?' This lady said, "They were warned! And that is the way it is going to be when Jesus comes back and the Christians are taken out. People are going to say, 'why weren't we warned, why weren't we told?'

You HAVE been warned and told.

So many people (non-Christians) laugh and mock Christians, but when that day comes, and it IS coming, you CANNOT say you were not told, that you didn't know. As the verses above say, even creation speaks of the Savior. I urge you to receive Jesus now, make Him your Lord and Savior, trust your life to Him and live for Him.

Friday, November 15, 2013

We are just finishing up our study in the Ladies Bible study at my church on Psalms 3 and 4. These two chapters are prayers that David prayed when he was running for his life from his son, Absalom.

I started this study by going back to the Old Testament starting with IISamuel 11 and looked at how this all started with Bathsheba. Sin has it's consequences and even though a person repents, as you will see here with David, there is still a high price to pay. Not too long ago, I heard this quip: "It is easier to repent than to do what is right now." People say this because they want to get away with doing something they want to do that is wrong. And They think they can do it and just repent and it will be all over with. How deceived they are and how VERY UN-TRUE that is and you will see this in this study.

This study is a long one. I have it in 5 parts including the questions:

The first part begins back in II Samuel chapters 11 through chapter 18. In this we will talk about how David's troubles started. And what a mess he put his family and friends in.

The second part discusses marriage from Ephesians. In this we show the difference of love and lust. We discuss the truth about each.

The third, is a discussion on the weapons of our warfare, for we NEED to know how to battle the enemy which includes his temptations and the battle for the mind. Since we cannot avoid the temptations, the Lord shows us what to do about them.

Psalm 51 is David's heartfelt repentant prayer to the Lord for what he did to Bathsheba, Uriah, her husband and especially to the Lord.

The study questions.

I have so thoroughly enjoyed doing this study. It is my prayer that you will enjoy it and will glean from it. I have done this study from the King James Version of the Bible and have also used the Complete Jewish Bible, so the word studies do come mostly from the KJV. As always I want to encourage you to trust Jesus with your whole being for He loves you so very much and has you in His heart. If you have any questions about this study you can write me at the address given in the "About Me" section. Now the study!

V8 Salvation-rescue from distress or danger. All encompassing word. It

means to:

★Salvation- Isaiah 12:1-6 A joy; 51:6-8 forever;62:1 light, Acts 8-12

Romans 1:16; I Peter 3:18

★Deliverance-Ransom Hebrews 11:35; Matthew 6:9-15;

★Help- Hebrews 13:6; Psalms10:14; 28:7; 54:4; 72;12

★Victory-Psalm 98:1-2; Isaiah 25:8-9; Matthew 12:15-21; ICorinthians

15:47-58; IJohn 5:4-5

★Prosperity-IIIJohn 2-to help on the road, to succeed in business

affairs; Philippians 4:19

★Health-Isaiah 53:1-5; IPeter 2:24;

★Rest Matthew 11:25-30

Chapter 4

V1 Two things David is asking the Lord here: to hear him when he calls and to have mercy upon him. Noticed that he asks the Lord twice to hear him. I believe he was desperate to know the Lord will hear him once again. He calls God his Righteousness. Rightly so. None of us can be righteous in our own selves. We can only be righteous with God righteousness, by receiving Jesus Christ, God's Son, as our Lord and Savior and being obedient to what He asks us to do.

V2 David ask 3 things of the sons of men-those who do not belong to the Lord. The first he ask about what they have done to him: "How long will you turn my glory into shame?" Those who don't love the Lord or want anything to do with Him will harass and just wear people out with badgering and jeering and all kinds of abuse.The next two questions are about themselves: "How long will you love vanity?" The people that are not Born-again are only concerned with themselves. How much money they can grab, power and to rule over others at any lengths, at any sacrifice. It is ME, ME, ME thinking.The other question that pertains to them is, " How long will you seek after leasing?" Leasing means 'deceit'. The question could be asked like this: "How long will you keep seeking to deceive others?" and actually themselves too!

V3 Godly- used 2 x of God-work, beyond reproach Psalm 145:17 and to

declare Jeremiah 3:12. All the rest usually refer to those who reflect

Dates Added

I just added dates to the patterns under "Links to my patterns" so you will know where to find the tutorials that go with them. Please find the tutorials under the year, month and day listed next to the pattern listed. Thanks and enjoy! If you have any questions please feel free to write me at the address in my profile.

Remember these are my own patterns that I drew the patterns for and wrote the tutorials for. I offer these patterns for free for you to make for yourself, as gifts, or even to sell BUT please do NOT claim my patterns as your own or put them on your website. You may put a link to my site on your website. Please be respectful. You would want the same respect for your patterns. Thank you. God bless.

Pre-Op for Sweaters and Shrugs

This "Pre-Op for Sweaters and Shrugs" is to help you with sizing. There is a place for arm length, body length, wrist size---every thing you need to keep track of to make my sweaters and shrugs. The download button is on the right. You can copy off as many as you need sweaters and shrugs for. If you have any questions about this please let me know and I will try to help.

About Me

I am a Born Again Christian and love Jesus very much and want others to know Him too. I am a WWP. I have a wonderful husband, Vic. We have been married for over 28 years and have two sons who are married to wonderful young women. All love Jesus too! We have two beautiful Grand-daughters and a very handsome Grandson. We are truly blessed by God.
This blog will be about Jesus and loom knitting, sewing and quilting. I hope to share loom patterns and quilt and sewing patterns that I have written and hope you all that do these crafts enjoy them. You may write me at prewittv at aol. com God bless.